🙆 If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

🙆 When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

🙆[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

🙆 I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

🙆 As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

🙆 I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

🙆 For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

🙆 Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

🙆 Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.